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An empty canvas is full.
A canvas is never empty.
Curiosity is the main energy.
Success is a worn down pencil.
Basically painting is total idiocy.
I don't mess around with my subconscious
I don't mess around with my subconscious.
I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.
This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.
The working process is ideally freeing my mind.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
For me there is no difference between art and life.
It is impossible to have progress without conscience
Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway
And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.
An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.
Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended
I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.
Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.
I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place
I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.
If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.
I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.
I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.
I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.
I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.
I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.
I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.
Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.